ANCESTRY RELEASES 94 NEW COMMUNITIES LIST FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND AFRO-CARIBBEAN PEOPLE
Ancestry has released 94 new communities’ lists for customers of African-American and Afro-Caribbean descent. Ancestry will help uncover stories of the people and the places that have been your family histories. These new updates use our unique Genetic Communities technology and help reveal the impact your ancestors had on history. Ancestry has around 15 million DNA consumers and is the world’s largest consumer DNA network enabling customers to see the level of accuracy and provide you with ways to find how your ancestors could have moved over time.
African Americans and Louisiana Creoles are the newly released communities. The members belonging to this community will learn that many Louisiana Black residents were working on cotton and sugar plants before the Civil War and were enslaved. But, in the 1900s, their ancestors who were victims of racial discrimination flee to other cities on the West Coast and Midwest. More than 18% of African Americans in the Bay area migrated from Louisiana in the 1940s.
The Afro-Caribbean communities consist of Jamaica, Haiti, Bahamas, and more, and they all played a significant role in African American history as almost half 5 million of African people forcefully shipped to America and these were enslaved in the Caribbean. These have worked in sugar plantations. But after the fall of the sugar industry, America founded a headquarter for recruiting the people in Barbados to supply the workers to construct the Panama Canal, that came as a surprise to thousands of Afro Caribbeans who built it.
Some Barbadians moved to America and settled in Harlem and Manhattan in New York, and in 1930, almost all Afro Caribbeans were doctors and lawyers. These new communities will allow our members to look at new windows into their past and new insights into their ancestors’ lives.
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